It’s Elementary Show #14 - Conferences 2.0, Style!
Shows, conferences February 26th, 2008Have a listen as we discuss Conferences and what makes them 2.0. What makes a face-to-face conference 2.0? Is it the conversations, how they are organized (what are the topics, and how decided), lecture vs. hands on.
Listen as we give our experiences with recent conferences and our expectations as teachers using Web 2.0 tools. We gave examples and how the bar is moving up with Web 2.0 tools like wikis, Skype, twitter and Ustream and the like. We also spoke about the unconference format as seen at educon at NECC and recently at SLA.
What can the presenter do to make it more 2.0?
Have a wiki for the presentation. Tags set up. Allow for and encourage backchannel conversation. Reach out to virtual attendees and others out on the web live with tools like Skype and Ustream.
What can the participants do to make it 2.0?
Adding notes to wiki presenter page. Live Blogging.
Blog and use session tag. Record and post as podcasts like David Warlick, Bob Sprankle and Wes Fryer.
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Join us the 2nd and 4th Mondays of every month. 4pm pacific, 7pm eastern at www.edtechtalk.com/live Our next show will be on Monday March 10th, 2008. We will be discussing Video in the Classroom with our guest Mathew Needleman.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I enjoyed this show and wished I would have caught it live. It brought up a few questions for me which you you might have some thoughts on…
What is the difference in your mind between posting links mentioned in
a session on a wiki versus on a web page? How would workshop participants
interact with a wiki?
I am sure that if David Warlick or Wesley Fryer posted a wiki before or after their presentations, people would check it out and contribute. However, if you or I posted a wiki ahead, would there really be an audience other than a few friends?
At what point does posting a presentation (powerpoint, handouts,
links) before the presentation is given ruin the presentation? Should presenters ever be worried that by posting the presentation ahead of time no one needs to show up? People could just take the handout and leave.
At most conferences, do average people really interact in the way that
you’re expecting? Check out technorati for cue08 or cue2008 and it only brings
up a few blogs and most of them are by the cool people I ate lunch with. I thought that there’d be more blogging about the event or maybe people just aren’t utilizing tagging in a way that makes posts easy to find. I’ve had the same experience with other conferences/events.
What can conferences do to encourage more participation?
March 12th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
These are excellent points. I went to a Barcamp, which involved tech types including programmers, and they were not live blogging. The most they did was take pics and post them to flickr with tags. It doesn’t take much to be at the cutting edge sometimes, but we need to model this to people. You are probably dragging a lot of people to edublogging because of your Open Court site (and reputation). A lot of folks did pre-post links, etc.
One point I like that Dy/Dan makes about slidedecks. If you are using enough visuals (and cutting down the text to the bare minimum) using your narration to tell the story, that can’t be replicated. Also, many of us have a vibe or a presence. I’m sure listening to this show on recording was different than doing our show together live. Sometimes you just can’t replace being there. I hope you can join us on Ed Tech Brainstorm on Thursday at 4 p.m. PDT to share some of these thoughts!